Pictures: UConn Graduations

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Kaitlin Roig--DeBellis gives the commencement address at UConn's Neag School of Education graduation Sunday at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Roig-DeBellis was a teacher at Sandy Hook School on the day of the December 14, 2012, massacre and is credited with saving her class of first-graders by hiding them in the bathroom. Roig-DeBellis, who graduated from the Neag School in 2006, is on a one-year leave from Sandy Hook Elementary and is the founder and executive director of Classes 4 Classes. She spoke about her life and her experience as a Sandy Hook survivor and stressed living with a positive attitude.

Kaitlin Roig--DeBellis gives the commencement address at UConn's Neag School of Education graduation Sunday at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Roig-DeBellis was a teacher at Sandy Hook School on the day of the December 14, 2012, massacre and is credited with saving her class of first-graders by hiding them in the bathroom. Roig-DeBellis, who graduated from the Neag School in 2006, is on a one-year leave from Sandy Hook Elementary and is the founder and executive director of Classes 4 Classes. She spoke about her life and her experience as a Sandy Hook survivor and stressed living with a positive attitude. (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)